Sifter-container.



H. W. JONES.

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APPLIoATIoN FILED JAN. ze, 190e.

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HARRY W. JONES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSGNOR TO AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SIFTEBeCONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application led January 29, 1909. Serial No. 474,973.

To all whom 'it may concern: d Be it known that I, HARRY W. JONES, a citizen of the UnitedV States, residing in New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sitter-Containers, of which the following is a speciication. My invention relates to receptacles or containers having sifter openings or perfor-ations.

It consists in. a box, can or other container having a wall thereof composed of yielding or compressible material, and furnished with sifter openings therethrough which are closed by the plugs or disks of compressible material cut therefrom, the same being ex panded, or the surrounding opening in which they tit contracted, by pressure to cause them to be held firmly and securelyuin place, while adapting them at the same time to be -readily punched out when it is desired to use the sifter openings for discharge ofthe powder or other material in the can, box or container. v

My invention also consists in the novel construction of parts and devices and in the novel combinations of parts and devices herein shown and described and more particularly specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a powder box or slfter container embodying myinvention, and showing some of the sitter. openings closed and others open. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section on line -2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view showing the plug or disk cut from the surrounding wall of the vessel and replaced therein, but-before it is tightened in the opening by compression. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the disk tightened in the opening in which it fits by compression.

Inthe drawing, the powder box or container is represented as having itswalls composed in part of compressible materialland in vpart of metal, That is to say, the body A is of paper or other compressible mate# Y. snugly inside the body, and with a ls eaming rial, and the heads B of tin plate or other sheet metal. The metal heads B are fur-` nished with a countersink wall b, fitting ange b1 surrounding and embracing the end o-the paper body. VThe sifter holes C are formed in that portion of the wall of the box or container whichis of yielding After the plugs or disks'D are entirelysev- `ered from the wall of the vessel, they are replaced and then compressed by subjecting them and the surroundlng wall of the vessel to pressure, thus-expanding these plugs or disks so that they very tightly and closely t in and close the sifter openings. The compression toV tighten the plugs or disks cut, may be exerted upon either the plugs or disks alone, thus expanding theplugs or disks by pressure, or upon the surrounding yielding wallof the container alone, thus contracting the opening in which the plugs it; but ordinarily in practice, I prefer to subject both the plugs and the surrounding wall of the container to compression, lthus at one and the sameftime contracting the hole in which the plugs fit-and expanding the plugs themselves.` y f Any desired number of sitter openings C may be employed, and plugs or 'disks-D for closing the same. If, in the.'body` of the -or compressible material, whether 'the samel pletely severing the plugs or disks therefrom. p

vessel, as illustrated [1n the'drawing, they A lare preferably located near one end thereof.

In use, any desired number of plugs or disks D may be pushed inward, thus openin my invention, the sitter holes are'cut entirelythrough the wallof the vessel inwhch they are formed and the plugs completely severed, when the plugs D are Vpunched .inward to open' the siter holes,

the holes have smooth, cleancut edges cn- -.tirel y free from any ragged effect.- As iu my -lnvention, the plugs cut\from the wall of the vessel to form the sifter openings are 75 D. in the openings C from which they are r again by' compression, either of the plugs themselves or of the surrounding wall of the hole in which they fit, caused to again very ti htly close the opening, there is no possibi ity of leakage, and no danger of the plugs being accidentally displaced. At the same time, my sifter container is' of an exceedingly simple construction, and capable ofbeing very cheaply manufactured.

' l. A sifter container having a compressi- A ble wall with sifter openings cut entirely pressible therethrough, and completely severed compressible plugs cut from said wall to form said openings and fitting in and closin said openings, said plugs being compresse and uniformly reduced in thickness throu hout their whole are'aand enlarged circ erentially to cause them to tightly close and be seeurelyand firmly retained in the openings p in the wall from' which they are cut, substantially as specied. L

2. Asifter container having a compressible Wall with sifter openings cut entirely therethrough', and completelysevered comp ugs cut from said wall to form said openmgs and itting in and closing said openings said plugs being compressed and uniformly reduced in thickness throu hout their whole area and enlarged circum erentially lto cause them to tightly close and be securely and rmly retained' in the openings opening therein and a com ressible-matevr1al plug cutfrom said Wal to form said opening and fitting in and closing said opening, an annular zone of said wall adjacent to and surrounding said o ening being compressed and reduced 'in t ickness, and the circumference of the opening thereby lessened to cause said plug to tightly close and be securely and firmly retained in said opening, substantially as specified.

- HARRY W. JONES. Witnesses:

r W. D. FOSTER, G. A. Elms/muon.`

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